Topic: Raising children in this current society (Read 1220 times)

It is true that when children grow up and start interacting with the outside environment we have no control over their environment. That is why if we can instill in their minds from childhood the importance of choosing friends and how to choose good friends, maybe we can't get into that situation. Choice of friends is very important in every persons life which influences them for good or bad throughout their life.

Parents taking care of children guiding them required all aspect exposure as many parents failed to give attention to their children that has leads to so many misconduct as most children prefer friend to relate their bordering issue rather parents, there are things parents need do and that is the most attention seeking in child training is sex education once the child begin to see some development in it body parents need teach them properly even before such stage it's important to educate them by themself before external body who may currupt them with fake information mislead them.

Even in other aspect the friend to associate with lifestyle parents must show good example and teach their child because what ever the children see parents doing they quickly adapt , training up children the way they should go can change the wrong in our society if parent fall back to their responsibility and not leaving it to teachers alone, parents teacher has no limit as long is your child all thing necessary must be told to widen the knowledge horizon and stop the child falling into wrong hand as a result of information that would have come from parent.

And that's why if they are in a bad company, they'll adopt the bad attitude of those people that surrounds them. As parents, we need to guide them and still teach them to what to do is right whenever we're not with them and wherever they go.

They're going to bring that teachings until they grow up and they'll know who to be with and who to flee from.

We have no control over the environment that they are in but we can protect them through guidelines and they will listen if we raise them properly.

That is very true @Op parents need to be at alert in raising their children, but the fact is that parents alone cannot raise their children. in the concept of nature-nurture controversy, the possibility of a child learning more from nature is greater than the possibility of a child learning from nurture controversy(parents). it is quite obvious that even the teachers cannot raise the children well but the irony of it here is that the child spent more of his or her time with peer groups, teachers both in schools, churches, and even at home. so, environments play a major role here.

Most parents are very busy types and always leave their children in the hands, of their tutors or instructors, or even minders and the child will grow with whatever character he or she learns from them. when a child is born according to john locke the child's brain is like an empty slate, so the child learns everything and records everything that enters his or her brain. raising a child is not the sole responsibility of the parents, anyone can raise a child and it is natural and that is why when you noticed that a child has misbehaved you will correct him without waiting for the parents. lastly it is pertinent to influence a child positively without waiting for the parents because it is for the good of the society and not only for the parents.

Mud clay can be shaped as desired but is very complicated because if we want to make them according to our needs and can't make them like that or if we are careless it will be different. The same goes for raising children. But day by day the social environment is getting worse. Friendly behavior among people is disappearing and if such a social environment persists, no matter how much education we teach in our family it will not help much. If each of us prays for the children of our family and gives them humane education then maybe it will be possible to get rid of this problem and it will be possible to raise the children well.

As the new generations got more and more used to the contact with technology, the role of parents, teachers and advisors has been decreasing in importance on the bigger picture. Everything started with the 'baby boomer' generation, due to their contact with TV since an early age, but it has been intensifying since the 'millennial' generation, due to modern technological gadgets.

What happens is that before, children had contact only with the influences from their parents, family and community. It was much easier to control what kinds of influences those individuals would have over them. However, with TV and the media, and now with internet, children are under constant bombing of every kinds of influences which you can imagine. Some influences go exactly on the opposite of the ideals and principles of the parents of those children.

And if the children decide to absorb those influences, they are going to be under constant disagreements with their families, what has high potential to corrode the relations on long run, and even contribute to risky behaviors from the side of those children, in signal of rebeldy against their parents.

I believe people should be conscious of all these challenges before deciding to go ahead on the idea of having children these days, with so much difficulties and quarrels ahead, where sons are easily put against parents by external forces, like the media, for an example.

And as always, education must begin with yourself. Children repeat the behavior of their parents, often their model of communication between family members, and repeat some of the expressions that their parents use. What is the main indicator of good child rearing? There is no answer to this question. For us parents, it is important to raise a full-fledged person who can live independently and develop in his field. Raising an honest, decent person is a great honor for parents.

If you want your children to grow in a wise way, ensure you impart knowledge of wiseness to them and you will begin to see them behaving wisely in the society, but if you depend on their teachers alone to teach your children to be wise or be a good person, it will not be easy for them to succeed.

Technology has made many children to know many things than their parents, because during the time of their parents in school those days such things where not happening but the children has discovered so many things through technology that is making them behaving negatively in the society.

Praying for your children to be a better children is a good thing, but try to work on your children by teaching the children how to be a good person in the society to have a good name, and you will discover that the children will begin to follow your advise but if you live everything in prayer, it will be difficult for you to have a good children in the society.

All you Said is true but there is one major aspects u will stretch in this topic, ina our society today there is no environment that is no currupt but parents can still raise children with ni questionable character or curruption through:
1 communication this shaping the life of a child more , and resist environmental influences, it's the nature of communication that a child hard either through fellow students,teacher or friend that leads to curruption environment as environment may be as second that influence.

With this upgrading advance technology, everything is in our hand. We can use it as we want. But we have to careful about what our children adopting cause there are bad things too including good one. so we should be alert to ensure they are adopting good things. Children can learns from Teachers, relative or other source like YouTube or other social media but this is parents, who should correction their kids if necessary. And yeah prayers could be the best weapons cause a region helps people to opt the right path and spreading peace everywhere

Nowadays, raising children is actually easy because everyone has digital tools such as baby swings, and children's games are becoming more sophisticated, but today's children have less morals due to this influence, where parental love has shifted a little so that Sometimes children look for other pleasures outside of the immediate ones. When they look outside without a filter, they all take it because there is no supervision anymore. Good education for children is actually both parents, they are the ones who know the characteristics of children. The solution is that if parents find it difficult to care for them, after they are 8 years old or have reached the age to take the education level, it is better for the child to go to school in a place where the children are boarding, because the boarding school is the second place for the child to prevent negative things.

Am wondering how porous the entire society is, in terms of immorality, reckless behaviour and hardship itself, It will be almost very difficult to raise children in this kind of era, children are the blessing from God and I think parents generally should take anything con ning their children serious in other to avoid some mistakes from occuring, though as I Mentioned earlier I know that it seems difficult but we can start from where.
The environment plays a a role in life of a growing child, despite that some homes are trying to survive this hard times, lets also make It a priority to always take full responsibility of parents because sometimes the children grow to blame their parents for what they have become, som we need to do our possible best set a standard for our children to grow with.

Parenting is one of the best things that one can do, contrary to others opinion about raising children as being difficult
Raising children in this time is not as difficult as many sees it as it is a matter of giving attention to your children and making them your priority
The truth is we have allowed the so called western culture to affect us in such a way that we have abandoned our first responsibility as individuals and that is the home and giving our children the right moral upbringing that we got from our parents

All you pointed out are clear responsibility of the parents to help shapen the life's of their children and this should begin at the very early stage, let him be taught on morals and aswell see the reflection of that same thing his being taught in you as a parent, my people will say " An apple doesn't fall far from the tree", whatever attribute we portray their is high possibility of our kids becoming that same person. The internet is getting wild and kids should be restricted but how unfair kids are intellectually fit to manover such restrictions but first giving a child a proper home training is the best means to a successful society.

A few actions parents could do in order to direct their children in a beneficial path. First, display the conduct you wish to see in your children. If you want children to be kind and respectful, display that conduct by being respectful and kind yourself. Second, have discussions that are open and truthful with your children concerning the risks as well as advantages of the internet. Make sure they recognize that not everything they see online is sincere, and that they should use precaution when sharing information online. Third, it is necessary to create limits and restrictions on usage of the internet.

I understand your point, but do you think a child will get punished if his bad habit is being emulated from his parent, instead they should be proud of their child becoming like them. Children are easily satisfied with what they hear and see, both at home, around the neighborhood, school and where ever they find themselves.
Another reason why I said so, children spends much time not around their parents but in school where they get mixed up, do the calculation your self you will understand most of the habits children gets involved into are not learnt from home but outside.

I would have totally agreed with you but your first statement where you said the character of children are beign learnt from outside that's a lie, before a kid knows anything he first learnt from his parents, I've seen kids just so young as 2 years exhibit character of beign insultive and arrogant and when I look at it one of his parents has such a character and the child only learnt from them, if a child came from a good home and learns bad character outside it is easy to solve such problem with discipline but not when he is learning from you as a parent that one can be very hard to deal with.

It is a matter on how adults and parents see the ideal way to live their life's while having children, you know. There will be people who will always prefer to interact with their family in person and face to face, in the same way it has been done through all the human history, however, because of this new generations of parents feel more comfortable with the idea of technology shaping the way their interest with others, then it will be just matter of time before some company develops something like an Artificial Inteligence babysitter or something similar to it. So parents would not feel forced to give as much as family time to their children as before.

It is truly a double edged sword, if you ask me.

Boss you have mentioned many things which I found very interesting, technology advancement will be a problem to an extent in the future because most parents see themselves as digital parents and the have forgotten that there no way a technology can do more better than a human been because they are just programmed.
Parents should engage their children in discussion session to know there problems from time to time, they should be give attention despite how things is in the world today we should do our best as parents to train our children the way they should be an example to others to emulate.

You are completely accurate; parenting is an important obligation that should not be handled lightly. Parenting is more than just putting food on the table, dressing them, and providing the finest education possible; it is also about keeping an eye on them, knowing how they are living their lives, what they are capable of, and what they like and dislike. Knowing who those around them are is also important since they may be connected to their fellow students at school or church, which can be an advantage and a curse at the same time. There is a lot of pressure to fit in and be cool, and it can be difficult for youngsters to resist because they want to be included and do what everyone else is doing. So all of this might be a difficult time for the parents. So that's why we're often told to "train up a child in the way he should go, so that when they grow up, they won't depart."